Cybersecurity Where You Are (video)

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Episode 101: Visualizing Attack Paths in Active Directory Sep 18, 2024

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In episode 101 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, Sean Atkinson is joined by Justin Kohler, Vice President of Products at SpecterOps, and Jonathan Parfait, Technical Account Manager at SpecterOps.

Together, they discuss how the visualization of attack paths in Active Directory helps organizations to better contextualize risks to their enterprise security.

Here are some highlights from our episode:

01:54. What Bloodhound is and how it assists organizations in assessing risks in their Active Directory environments
05:08. Why have organizations look at their Active Directory environments
11:15. Common vulnerabilities and misconfigurations identified by Bloodhound
21:21. How organizations can best use Bloodhound as part of their cyber defensive strategy
29:18. How Bloodhound is adapting to keep up with evolving Active Directory environments

Resources

If you have some feedback or an idea for an upcoming episode of Cybersecurity Where You Are, let us know by emailing podcast@cisecurity.org.

Episode 100: Celebrating 100 Episodes and Looking Ahead Sep 11, 2024

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In episode 100 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, Sean Atkinson and Tony Sager are joined by David Bisson, Sr. Content Marketing Strategist at the Center for Internet Security® (CIS®).

Together, they celebrate the first 100 episodes of Cybersecurity Where You Are and discuss where the podcast might go in the future.

Here are some highlights from our episode:

01:14. How the podcast's approach and content have changed since the first episode
04:19. What surprised the team about the "machinery" of putting on a cybersecurity podcast
07:53. A look back at some of our favorite guests and types of podcast episodes
27:20. How the podcast can continue to support the cybersecurity industry going forward

Resources

If you have some feedback or an idea for an upcoming episode of Cybersecurity Where You Are, let us know by emailing podcast@cisecurity.org.

Episode 99: How Cyber-Informed Engineering Builds Resilience Sep 04, 2024

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In episode 99 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, Sean Atkinson is joined by Marcus Sachs, SVP and Chief Engineer at the Center for Internet Security® (CIS®).

Together, they discuss how cyber-informed engineering builds resilience to the potential failure of a digital system into new and existing engineering products.

Here are some highlights from our episode:

03:51. What cyber-informed engineering is and how this paradigm has emerged
11:39. What CIS is doing to emphasize cyber-informed engineering among U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) government organizations
16:25. Why resilience requires everyone to be "cyber-informed"
20:50. The need for boards of directors and C-Suite leaders to understand cybersecurity risk
25:30. What preparations help to lay the foundation for cyber-informed engineering

Resources

If you have some feedback or an idea for an upcoming episode of Cybersecurity Where You Are, let us know by emailing podcast@cisecurity.org.

Episode 98: Transparency as a Tool to Combat Insider Threats Aug 28, 2024

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In episode 98 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, Sean Atkinson and Tony Sager are joined by Roger Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4.

Together, they embrace transparency as a vehicle for the cybersecurity industry to better defend against insider threats.

Here are some highlights from our episode:

01:28. How KnowBe4 detected an insider threat from North Korea
09:09. How the Center for Internet Security® (CIS®) responded to news of this incident
21:02. The role of technical controls in detecting these types of threats
23:56. Common signs you can use to detect fake employees in your hiring process
29:22. How cybersecurity companies can use this incident to improve their defenses

Resources

If you have some feedback or an idea for an upcoming episode of Cybersecurity Where You Are, let us know by emailing podcast@cisecurity.org.

Episode 97: How Far We've Come preceding CIS's 25th Birthday Aug 21, 2024

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In episode 97 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, Tony Sager is joined by the following guests:

Dr. Ramon Barquin, Board Member at the Center for Internet Security® (CIS®) and President and Chief Executive Officer at Barquin International
Franklin Reeder, Director Emeritus and Founding Chair of CIS as well as Director of the National Cybersecurity Scholarship Foundation
Clint Kreitner, Founding President/CEO and Former Board Member at CIS

Together, they look back at how much CIS has accomplished as an organization in the leadup to its 25th birthday.

Here are some highlights from our episode:

06:04. What brought everyone to CIS's founding meeting at the Cosmos Club
16:08. The first steps to operationalizing the takeaways of the Cosmos Club meeting
25:40. How CIS's business model came to be
34:24. The events that brought the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®) into CIS
42:42. Tracing the past forward to where we are now

Resources

If you have some feedback or an idea for an upcoming episode of Cybersecurity Where You Are, let us know by emailing podcast@cisecurity.org.

Episode 96: Making Continuous Compliance Actionable for SMBs Aug 14, 2024

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In episode 96 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, co-hosts Sean Atkinson and Tony Sager are joined by Tarah Wheeler, CEO of Red Queen Dynamics.

Together, they discuss ongoing efforts to translate continuous compliance into something actionable for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

Here are some highlights from our episode:

03:11. The philosophy behind a business model focused on continuous compliance for SMBs
17:44. How the Fog of More complicates security and compliance for the "cyber-underserved"
30:56. How the industry can navigate the multiple-framework issue and streamline compliance

Resources

If you have some feedback or an idea for an upcoming episode of Cybersecurity Where You Are, let us know by emailing podcast@cisecurity.org.

Episode 95: AI Augmentation and Its Impact on Cyber Defense Aug 07, 2024

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In episode 95 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, Sean Atkinson is joined by Randy Rose, VP of Security Operations & Intelligence at the Center for Internet Security® (CIS®).

Together, they discuss AI augmentation in terms of how cyber defenders are using generative artificial intelligence to enhance their capabilities.

Here are some highlights from our episode:

01:16. How artificial intelligence has changed the landscape for cybersecurity defenders
03:49. How AI is starting to augment threat detection
10:12. What security researchers are exploring around AI and cyber defense
20:54. Key challenges and limitations for AI-based cyber defense
30:54. Future trends and innovations for cybersecurity defenders' use of AI

Resources

If you have some feedback or an idea for an upcoming episode of Cybersecurity Where You Are, let us know by emailing podcast@cisecurity.org.

Episode 94: Community Defense at the ISAC Annual Meeting Jul 31, 2024

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In episode 94 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, Tony Sager is joined by the following guests from the Center for Internet Security® (CIS®):

Carlos Kizzee, SVP of Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®) Strategy & Plans
Karen Sorady, VP of MS-ISAC Strategy & Plans
Greta Noble, Director of Community Engagement

Together, they discuss how the ISAC Annual Meeting supports the 24x7x365 community defense efforts of the MS-ISAC and Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (EI-ISAC®).

Here are some highlights from our episode:

02:30. Background information on ISACs in general and the role of the MS-ISAC
04:17. Why it's an annual meeting and not a conference
06:40. What made the 2024 ISAC Annual Meeting the largest of its kind so far
08:43. How the human dimension drives our yearly meeting
15:44. The role of the MS- and EI-ISACs in CIS's broader strategy
19:42. How our yearly meeting improves what CIS does
29:57. What's next for the ISAC Annual Meeting

Resources

If you have some feedback or an idea for an upcoming episode of Cybersecurity Where You Are, let us know by emailing podcast@cisecurity.org.

Episode 93: Keeping Societal Confidence in a Connected World Jul 24, 2024

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In episode 93 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, co-hosts Sean Atkinson and Tony Sager are joined once again by John Cohen, Executive Director of Countering Hybrid Threats at the Center for Internet Security® (CIS®).

Together, they discuss a whole-of-society approach to help make the U.S. public resilient against multidimensional threats in our connected world.

Here are some highlights from our episode:

01:52. What the U.S. public needs to consider in order to strengthen its resilience
06:04. How a national framework addresses the need for organizations to build resilience and intercommunication in the face of increasingly sophisticated threats
11:41. Identifying who key partners are in a complex, hybrid world
16:49. How people are responding to the national framework and where they are seeing value
21:50. Clarifying hopes for the national framework going forward

Resources

If you have some feedback or an idea for an upcoming episode of Cybersecurity Where You Are, let us know by emailing podcast@cisecurity.org.

Episode 92: A Framework to Counter Evolving Cyber Threats Jul 17, 2024

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In episode 92 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, co-hosts Sean Atkinson and Tony Sager are joined by John Cohen, Executive Director of Countering Hybrid Threats at the Center for Internet Security® (CIS®).

Together, they discuss "Enhancing Safety in the Connected World — A National Framework for Action," a multi-year project to help law enforcement and security professionals better contextualize and respond to evolving cyber threats.

Here are some highlights from our episode:

02:01. Why the current threat environment necessitates a framework that accounts for "cyber physical," "cyber safety," and other considerations
08:48. How entities at the federal level and local law enforcement approach evolving cyber threats differently
16:34. The different types of threats that characterize the evolving cyber threat environment
22:05. How the Federalist Papers inform the Framework's "whole-of-society" approach

Resources

If you have some feedback or an idea for an upcoming episode of Cybersecurity Where You Are, let us know by emailing podcast@cisecurity.org.

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